I started plotting my urban fantasy romance with a pole dancing, motorcycle driving manananggal assassin on a mission to seduce and kill a (sexy) sun god set in a modern Vegas + LA filled with gods and monsters 😈🍸🌞💋🎰🌊🎥 which is SO EXCITING but me, the author, am in bed at 8pm with a herbal tea 🍵

Finally made it out to @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social , an amazing Montreal bookstore/café/bar. My books there are now signed. And I got to hang with my friend @deannajvaldez.com

Welcome to the #agentguide for FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🪽 💕reluctant lovers on an epic quest 🎶 a rakish bard / exiled knight 😉 a dash of humour 🦇 Philippine folklore 🍃 sentient forests 🏴‍☠️ pirate cities 🎭 masquerade balls ⚔️deadly trials 👑 battling religious tyrants #agentsguide #fantasyromance

Writers truly never clock out 🫠 I’ve started intense and time-consuming research* for my 🌞west coast 🎰🍸urban filipino fantasy feat. gods, monsters, strip clubs, Hollywood parties, casinos and convertibles *rewatching Buffy *rewatching Angel *rewatching Charmed What else should I research*?

Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!

ok. i am about to get sentimental on main. The Iron Garden Sutra is going to be out in like...4 months, and i have complicated feelings. i love sci-fi. i grew up reading it and now i'm writing it (yay!). but it feels like the genre is shrinking except for the well-established heavy hitters.

Say less 😈

I want more fun mashups a thousand and one arabian nights but its terminally online tiktok doomscroll brainrot hansel and gretel giant robots hatsune miku x barbie romcom

Here’s a little thread of the pitches of chaotic romantic fantastical novels I’ve outlined rotting in my goblin writing brain ✍️❤️‍🔥🕯️

Affirmations are so important.

i like that if your robbery is sufficiently cool it becomes a heist

It was an absolute JOY to moderate the WHO’S TELLING THIS STORY (AND HOW?) panel at #CanCon2025 ❤️ We could have gone on forever about POV, first person vs third close narrative, and unreliable narrators!

Pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I taking quick breaks to eat and dance between all the fun CanCon activities ❤️ Not pictured: @ellieabouttown.bsky.social and I sprinting to get to panels in time and taking nap breaks in the car 💤 Balance 🫶

#CanCon2025 highlight: THE MONSTROUS RETELLINGS PANEL! Honoured to share the table with fabulous authors @kateheartfield.com, @anuja-v.bsky.social and Derek Newman-Stills 🫶 The room was PACKED the audience was ENGAGED and I had the BEST time!

Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!! I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂 Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶

CanCon prep

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Sending and receiving panel questions for @canconsffh.bsky.social and let me tell you, these talks are going to be SO COOL 👀✨📝

Anyone else going to @canconsffh.bsky.social? 👀🍂📚💕 I can’t wait ahhhhhhhh 😍

Excited to be admitted into @futurescapesww.bsky.social Long Manuscript Workshop to work with Editor, Dianna Vega on my romantic fantasy adventure FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN 🎉🪽 Can't wait to meet my cohort and dig into the novel I've been obsessing over this year ❤️

With only a ⚔️disgraced knight🔥 to aid her quest, Mahalina battles: ☠️mythical monsters 🍃enchanted woods 🏴‍☠️pirate city 🎭corrupt courtiers 👑ruthless tyrant 🔪deadly trials to reclaim her lost wings🪽and ascend to heaven ..but the real risk is trying not to fall in love⚔️🔥
 #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

When Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy She must enter the perilous Wishing Wood to find him In a world of 🕯️wishing curses 🎪enchanted markets 🕷️deadly riddles ⚔️impossible trials 💀false gods nothing is certain and nothing is free

 #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🕯️ The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all❤️‍🔥 But when Mariposa’s father disappears he leaves her with a prophecy... Enter the Wood🍂 Face the monsters ☠️ Follow the butterflies crawling up her throat🦋 #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

The nerd in me has been absolutely buzzing at DVPit since I have 2 projects and have been posting almost every hour ⏰ I’m getting real time feedback on what imagery works, what pitch formats, and best of all the comparison between hours most active or inactive 😍

🌊THE RIVER HAS ROOTS x THE SUMMER WAR🍃 🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️ But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the false gods trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

Mahalina lost everything her people slaughtered🪦 her home destroyed🔥 her wings gone🪽...or so she thought A religious tyrant stole them👑 A ⚔️disgraced knight❤️‍🔥 knows how to get them back
 ☠️monsters🍃enchanted woods🎭evil courtiers🔪deadly trials...what could go wrong? #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT
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Do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂 The Good and Gracious Gods condemn wishing above all🕯️ But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the dark forest to find him, but will she be devoured by false gods trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

🗡️THE KNIGHT & THE MOTHxEVER AFTER💕 A sky maiden lost her wings A religious tyrant stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy ☠️mythical monsters 🍃enchanted woods ☠️pirate city 🎭corrupt courtiers ☠️deadly trials
 ❤️‍🔥reluctant lovers #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT 🇵🇭

The support from DVPit has been so 🥹❤️ Gotta love when the writing community shows UP🙌 All your projects are so amazing, I wish I could reply to them all but manifesting agent and editor engagement for all of you 🫶

Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️ But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him🍂 Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by the monsters within?💀 #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

Mahalina was a sky maiden destined for immortality in heaven🪽 But a tyrant stole her magic wings to fuel his evil reign 👑 Can she reclaim what’s hers against all odds and ascend? OR will she stay and fight for a broken world, even if it costs her immortality?🔥 #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

🗡️THE KNIGHT & THE MOTHxEVER AFTER💕 A sky maiden on a quest for her stolen wings must fight to reclaim what’s hers. 👑 religion as control 🇵🇭 Philippine fairy tale ⚔️ hot knight 🍃 enchanted forest ☠️ floating pirate city 🎭 masked ball 🌌 deadly trials ❤️‍🔥 reluctant lovers #DVPit #A #F #R #Asian #LGBT

THE SALT GROWS HEAVY x THE SUMMER WAR 🕯️Dutiful daughters do not enter the Wishing Wood🍂🕷️
 But when Mariposa’s father disappears, he leaves her a prophecy🖌️ She must enter the forest to find him, but will she be devoured by the monsters trapped within?🕷️ #DVPit #A #Novella #DF #H #Asian #LGBT

Hey writing friends!! I’m going to be posting a lot about my projects today 🎉 If you’re posting projects I’d love to support! 🫶❤️ Likes + Reposts = interest from agents and editors ✍️ Replies + Quote posts = fair game to celebrate each others pitches 🥂 I can’t wait to see all your projects!!!!

Welcome to an agent’s guide to FEATHERS BENEATH THE SKIN🪽🍃⚔️ A sky maiden on a quest for her lost wings will reclaim what’s hers or 💀trying… 👑 religion as control 🇵🇭 Philippine fairytale ⚔️ hot chaotic knight 🍃 enchanted forest 🏴‍☠️ floating pirate city 🎭 masked ball 🌌 deadly trial 💕 reluctant lovers

Welcome to an agent’s guide to GOOD & GRACIOUS GODS🍂🕯️🕷️ Mariposa knows only false and fallen gods await in the Wishing Wood🕷️ But when her father disappears, he leaves her with a prophecy: she must enter the forest to find him🍂

Can she survive the wood's tests or will she be devoured by all within?

TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET! Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq #writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks

1️⃣ 🕯️dark fairy tale novella 🦋🪾 a cursed MC must enter a treacherous Wishing Wood to rescue her father 2️⃣ 💕 fantasy adventure novel ⚔️ a sky maiden* on a quest to retrieve her lost wings 🪽 from a tyrant king 👑 (with a disgraced but HOT knight at her side😘) *from Philippine sky maiden fairy tale🇵🇭

#DVpit is 1 week away! We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints! For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event! more info: dvpit.carrd.co #writersky

I'm going to tell what my parents, raised in the USSR, taught me as a child and then re-taught it when Putin rose to power in Russia— build a small, trusted circle and never run your mouth outside of said circle. This circle will become the place you express your dissent.

What are the 5 films you’ve watched the most?🎬❤️ Mine are: The Last Unicorn (my childhood obsession) The Mummy (the international bi awakening) Kiki’s Delivery Service (when I need peace) Legally Blonde (when I need to get shit done) 10 things I hate about you (best on screen kiss of all time)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

What’s on your desk with you when you write? This week I’ve had: 🕯️candles & perfumes 📓textbooks* ☕️ my heated mug 🎨 my iPad for lil sketching breaks 🪦 Vampires of el Norte, my current read *an ethnoastronomy text, Vol1 encyclopedia of Philippine folklore, a book on Philippine 16thC medicines👀

So excited for this 😍🙌

I’m so excited to be both a panelist and moderator for some amazing talks at @canconsffh.bsky.social 🫶 get ready to get nerdy about monsters, retellings, sad girl prose, multi POV writing and more 🕯️🍂☕️ 🪐💙📚

To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write. Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour. Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us. If you put words to the page, then we are peers.

I’ve got another custom t shirt on the way which means I might have another short story announcement on the way soon 👀 My “still hungry” shirt from my FFO flash piece got rave reviews so I’m hoping this one will be just as cute and horrific 😉

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer determined to finish their novel must be downtrodden by a migraine 🫠💙📚

There are two beasts inside me 🌞One wants to frolic in the summer sun 🍃 and sip bubbly on a terrasse 🥂and read flirty little romance books 🌹💞 🍂🪦 One wants to bundle myself in leather trench coats and drink cream of earl grey tea ☕️ and read sexy goth academia books 📓 So…any book recs? 💙📚🪐